79 Ghetto Quotes for You to Enjoy

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto. Carter G. Woodson

Strong Will Become Enough Ghetto Out Must Fed Never Pushes He Him Hand Get Eternally

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed. Elie Wiesel

When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy. Malcolm X

You Privacy Living Ghetto Seems Shame Normal

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good. Oprah Winfrey

Myself Good Age Made Girl Somebody Think Ghetto Responsible Had Knew Make Poor Deprived Who Early Early Age

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible. Carter G. Woodson

Life Education Leadership Religion Matters Assumption Ghetto Possible Must Make Forces Deal Uplift Confined Social Then Fundamental Things

For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive. Suge Knight

Life You Way Ghetto Thugs Survive Helps Violence

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. Bobby Sands

Freedom Ghetto Spirit Only Boy Revolutionary Nationalist Repression Creates Working-Class

The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools. Jonathan Kozol

Work Trouble Rich Pain Ghetto Machines Anesthetic Oblivion Purposes Excellent Schools Accepted Up Historically Privilege Children Achieving Suburban Then Produced Use Who Grow Grow Up Servants

I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions. Young Thug

Ghetto Stayed Then Mansions

Jamaica full of ghetto, but boy, I tell you: me never see it like that. Damian Marley

Me You Ghetto Tell See Never Like Boy Jamaica Full

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto; I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now. Eminem

Me People White Believe Back Ghetto Say Hood Tour Had Friends Same Poor Then Hard Lived Now Why

I'm just one woman away, my mother, from being the same as Mike Tyson. I would've ended up like him if my mama had not been so tough and strong. A lot of people, including Mike, don't know I came from the ghetto. They think I'm too nice and proper. But that's the way my mama raised me - to look people in the eye and respect them. Evander Holyfield

Me Respect Woman People Strong Mother Tough Nice Think Too Way Ghetto Tyson Eye Proper Had Like Know Look Him Came Been Lot Up Mama Ended Same Just Being Just One Them Mike Mike Tyson Including Away Raised

One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility.' Geoffrey Canada

Music Ghetto One Of The Things Someone Toughest Come Looked Up Sells Any Artist Just Urban Meanest Credibility Street Things Streets

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence. Saul Williams

We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too. Quincy Jones

Depression Heart Black Black And White White Every Too Ghetto Also Practically Block Were Chicago America Biggest Ground Gangster

Going back about 10 years ago, the only thing a black kid could do to get out of the ghetto was being a sports star. Now we can add music to that, which is a good achievement in itself. Big Narstie

Music Good Achievement Sports Black Add Back Ghetto Kid Out About Only Could Years Years Ago Itself Get Going Being The Only Thing Which Star Now Thing

My dad was born in 1930 in Lithuania, located in Eastern Europe. He was 9 years old when the war started, and his family was sent to the Kovno ghetto. They were soon separated and sent to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany. Daniel Lubetzky

In Australia, there just weren't strong roles for actors of colour. I was often being asked to turn up for commercials with a ghetto blaster on my shoulder. I thought, 'Are we in the '60s?' DeObia Oparei

Strong Thought Ghetto Colour Were Up Australia Commercials Roles Often Just Being Turn Asked Shoulder Actor

I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto. Diana Ross

Ghetto Brought Detroit Part Call Up Used

The kids that are making the ghetto stuff I can't even reach are the ones that are inspiring me to play music for the other kids in the city they don't even know about. If I don't get those kids making music, there won't be an original kid DJing like me in five to 10 years. Diplo

I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere. Dr. Dre

Music Home Me Sports School Made Everybody Back Way Everywhere Ghetto Neighborhood Park Could Feel Always Got Fence Were Jump Did Just Where Loved

Every ghetto you go to, Latinos and blacks are the two people that are together. We don't look at each other in any different way, like 'He's black; I'm Latino.' I look at us as one. Fat Joe

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